Online Collection Data

Search Our Collections

Our searchable database provides access to data for more than 719 360 specimens in the collections of the Canadian Museum of Nature.

That figure represents about 22% of the total cataloguable units in the collections, which reflect the museum's four major disciplines:

zoology

palaeobiology

mineralogy

botany.

Phycology

Collection data for more than 3 043 080 specimens from the museum's National Phycology Collection of Canada (algae and diatoms) are stored in a separate database designed specifically for aquatic biological collections and the unique environmental data that are closely associated with the specimens, such as water chemistry. These data are accessible through http://www.nature-cana.ca/english.